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Title: The Chill by Ross MacDonald, Tom Parker ISBN: 0-7861-1066-X Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best mysteries i have ever read
Comment: Ross Macdonald could flat out write. His style is at times very 'Chandleresque', (he really enjoyed Chandler's books)but he brings something else to this story that even the master Raymond Chandler wouldn't have.
The word is 'dimension'. Where Chander and Hammett were known for there 'hardboiled' approach, Macdonald's Lew Archer is obviously a man of keen intelligence. He is also one cool customer, a flawed man in a flawed world.
The story concerns a murder that could be connected to
another murder that happened many years before. And, maybe another. The plot reveals itself slowly, I wasn't quite sure where it was going, but the writing is so crisp and poetic, that i just read, and let it all happen.
This is a wonderful book, written by a man who deserves all the praise in the world for bringing something else to the mystery novel.
Just read it, and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Written in longhand in spiral notebook in Santa Barbara.
Comment: For those of us who keep going back again and again to read
the novels of Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell
Hammett, Ernest Hemingway and Peter Matthiessen, this is
without question one of the greatest works of that group.
Once Ross Macdonald (Ken Millar) broke through with the Galton Case, every novel from then on formed one of the great canons of
American literature. The N.Y. Times Book Review had
The Underground Man as its front page review in 1970.
Well-deserved recongnition for a writer at his zenith.
What Conan Doyle was to London in its era, so is Ross Macdonald to
California in its era. A great writer on the edge of a culture.
The Chill stands with the Zebra-Striped Hearse and The
Underground Man alongside The Long Goodbye and The Big
Sleep as American writing at its very best.
To be an American (and a Californian) is to read these
books.
So subtle, so psychological, so empathetic, so hard.
Modern noir --- the epitome of great craftsmanship.
At the top of 5 stars. The very top. One of the proud
novels on the Knopf list.
Rating: 4
Summary: Complicated, tragic puzzle with a hint of daring
Comment: Noir fiction often has tested barriers and taboos. This Lew Archer novel is in that tradition in that it doesn't break any taboos, but it does hint at it. If THE CHILL were written today, I think it would have been a bit more direct.
As with many Lew Archer cases, this one starts innocently enough with his being hired to find a missing newlywed who's disappeared after an encounter with a mysterious visitor. In a short period of time, he's involved in a murder case, one in which he feels a vague sense of being responsible. There are the usual twists, the usual questions of identity, the interconnection of characters which doesn't at first meet the eye.
MacDonald characters are difficult to pigeonhole into "good" or "bad" categories. The motivations often come from deeply within the psyches of the characters.
The emphasis in this story as well as most in the series is on the puzzle. There are seldom recurring characters in these novels, and little interaction other than investigative betwee Archer and the other characters. And as always, the dark corners of human nature are well probed.
Definitely highly recommended.
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Title: The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0679768645 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0375701451 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Far Side of the Dollar (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0679768653 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0679768068 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0679768084 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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